Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

There is no cosmetic like happiness

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.